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A recent poll found that ten years ago, tenants in important cities such as Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Delhi would rent nine times before purchasing a property. Today’s younger generation buys after renting just four or five times in their lifetime. For instance, in Bengaluru, the typical age of first-time house purchasers has …
Investing through a multi-asset strategy offers benefits like diversification, but it also brings psychological drawbacks that can affect decision-making. Recognizing and addressing these psychological drawbacks is key to making informed and effective investment decisions. In this blogpost, we’ll explore how these biases impact multi-asset investing and provide strategies to overcome them for better portfolio management. …
“Income from capital gains” refers to any profit or gain that results from the sale of a “capital asset.” These capital gains are subject to taxes in the year that the capital asset is transferred. We refer to this as capital gains tax. Capital gains are classified into two types: short-term capital gains (STCG) and …
The idea that “real estate investment never leads to losses” is a popular belief among investors. There is a widespread belief that if you hang onto a property long enough, you will always make money. Let us try to figure out if it is true. How do investors calculate loss and gain? Investors calculate losses …
First, let’s define alternative assets. An alternative investment is a financial asset that does not fit into any of the traditional investment divisions. Traditional asset types include equities, bonds, and cash. Simply said, these are not classified as standard financial assets like cash, fixed deposits, stocks, bonds, equity, or debt mutual funds. Alternative assets comprise assets …
For retail investors, to manage their investment portfolio volatility due to both macro and micro level factors such as inflation, geo-political crisis, stock market fluctuations, etc., financial experts advice that InvIT’s and Reits could be a good choice for portfolio diversification. Both InvITs and Reits have lately received attention, with mutual fund companies seeking for …
Many people neglect or ignore a few basic and frequent factors of their financial well-being. As we all know, major investment classes include real estate, gold, and financial instruments such as stocks and bonds. If you buy a house to live in, this is considered consumption. In a similar way buying gold or jewellery to …